Word: terrain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voters. The British do not doubt that Jagan is as Red as ever, but the line he now talks is quite different from 1953, when he promised to shoot the "oppressors." This time he shows more practical concern with the colony's huge problems-poor soil, soggy terrain, and torrid climate. He preaches cooperation with the Crown and with the firms controlling British Guiana's sugar and bauxite industries...
...Michael Gluhareff, engineering manager of Sikorsky's major helicopter program, plans to manufacture his device in partnership with Los Angeles Industrialist Robert McCulloch, hopes to get bids from the armed services and firms such as oil companies, which often need to plunk down a man in rugged terrain. Wistfully, Gluhareff rules out one potential customer: the earthbound commuter. Says he: "The CAA would never approve...
...Keep Germane." Dick Russell got down to the business of detail. A master of legal terrain, with uncanny insight into the minds of his adversaries, he knew where the weak spots lay. The Justice Department had advertised the civil rights bill as "moderate right-to-vote legislation," but had written into it complex injunctive powers that rested, so said the Southerners, on the "Force Acts" of Reconstruction. Dick Russell defined two outstanding targets: the bill's Part III, which granted authority for the U.S. Attorney General to get injunctions from Federal Courts to prevent abuses of all kinds...
Moving Target. But wiping out Castro & Co. called for more than angry words. The government troops, trained on flat, open land, had to fight in mountainous terrain in which the rebels were thoroughly at home. Batista's forces had orders to shoot at anything that moved-but in the tangled, rain-soaked forests of the Sierra Maestra it was hard to see anything move. In the 5½ months following Castro's Mexico-based invasion, his rebels learned how to fire from cover and silently slip away to fire again. Castro kept on the move constantly, toughening...
...thought that he was far too late in saying it. "He should have moved when Secretary Humphrey made his incredible [curl your hair] criticism," said the pro-budget Atlanta Constitution. "Meanwhile, the enemies took possession of the field and established themselves on all the strategic positions in the political terrain...